The remarkable influx of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in different West African countries in recent years has been met with growing resistance by established local entrepreneurs. Whether the former have a competitive edge over the latter because of distinctive socio-cultural traits, or whether the Chinese supposed effectiveness is just a characteristic feature of any trading Diaspora, is open ...

The objective of this work in progress is to endogenise the firm sector in the classic Diamond Dybvig setup. This should better able us to understand how shocks are transmitted within sectors. 1 The basic setup and the players • Consider an economy with three periods, t = 0, 1, 2. • There exists a single divisible consumption good in each period. • There are three types of agents: depositors, f...

Although technological change is a hallmark of health care worldwide, relatively little evidence exists on whether changes in health care differ across the very different health care systems of developed countries. We present new comparative evidence on heart attack care in seventeen countries showing that technological change--changes in medical treatments that affect the quality and cost of c...

INTRODUCTION The Internet is changing the way we work, socialize, create and share information, and organize the flow of people, ideas, and things around the globe. Yet the magnitude of this transformation is still underappreciated. The Internet accounted for 21 percent of the GDP growth in mature economies over the past 5 years. In that time, we went from a few thousand students accessing Face...

Top managers are believed to be critical players in their organizations, significantly affecting organizations’ behavior and performance. Therefore, the choice of the top manager is considered to be one of the most important decisions that an organization makes and is being extensively studied by research scholars. However, the extant evidence is largely limited to mature organizations, whereas...

For all that has been written about the Internet, most managers remain confused regarding its likely strategic impact on their businesses. Our aim, in this article, is not to try to predict the likely technological evolution of the Internet but rather to provide managers with a generic framework (the ICDT model) for understanding the opportunities and threats generated by the Internet and for d...

This paper examines the motivational factors that could possibly lead women to become entrepreneurs. A comparison of these motivational factors is done between women entrepreneurs and women non-entrepreneurs. The study is based on 225 women entrepreneurs, engaging in the manufacturing, trading and services sectors in Small and Medium Industries in Malaysia. Nonentrepreneurs consist of women wor...

Implementing change in organizational systems is challenging, and implementing a new psychotherapeutic approach is no different. A literature exists on issues in implementation across a wide range of domains (technological, healthcare, justice). However, little of it is utilized in endeavours to implement innovations in psychological treatments. This paper draws on the implementation literature...